Clarion 1969-04-18 Vol 43 No 24

Vol. XLIII—No. 24
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, April 18, 1969
Senators create office of presidency
TABLE-FULL OF TROPHIES
Eight first place winners were named in Bethel's recent
first annual. Forensics Festival. (See story . . . page 2)
"Unique Mandate" for Shupe
President-elect plans action
DAVE SHUPE
by Marjorie Rusche
"I am not afraid of committing myself to a cause
once I have made up my mind to support it. Addition-ally,
I am not afraid of changing my mind."
These are the words of Dave Shupe, Bethel's new
student body president-elect.
When Dave assumes office May 1, he hopes to
have co-ordinated a program of action for next year.
This general program will be presented on May 1 in
chapel. Presently, Dave is using this month to "pull
in ideas, talk to people, contact student leaders on
other campuses to build a working relationship on a
first-name basis."
Dave is no newcomer to the responsibilies and
challenges of leadership. As a freshman, Dave worked
on the Coeval staff. His sophomore year he took over
the editorship of the Coeval, served on the World
Missions student-faculty committee, participated in
IC-3 and festival choir.
This year saw Dave as student senate vice-presi-dent,
president of Christians International, and pro-gram
director of Pi Gamma Mu, the national honor
society of social sciences.
A junior and an anthropology (formerly English)
major, Dave is also a newlywed. The former Della
Gibbs (also a former English and anthropology major)
and Dave were married the Saturday after his election
victory.
A unique mandate was given to Dave from the
student body. Originally he had lost out in the elimi
nation primary by four votes. The next week he ar-rived
at school to find people asking him to run as
a write-in candidate.
"All those guys asked me to do was to put my
reputation and beliefs on the line. They did virtually
all the planning and work for the write-in campaign,"
Shupe stated. "I have a great feeling of appreciation
towards those who put me over."
He said the turn-out for the election was very en-couraging
and the election campaigning itself exhibit-ed
a great deal of student involvement.
(See election results . . . page 2)
Dave has a deep desire to maintain and increase
the level of involvement that was exhibited during
the election. "I cannot overstress the necessity for
student concern and action over matters that directly
affect their lives. There are some great opportunities
coming up — New Campus planning and curriculum
changes — for students to get together, organize, and
effectively act."
Dave views his role as president in both an
objective and subjective manner. "Objectively, I see
myself gathering opposing viewpoints, presenting them
to the Senate, generating discussion on issues on
campus. Subjectively, I wish to provide the leadership
necessary to co-ordinate and focus Senate action and
other campus-group action into positive change for
the benefit of the student body."
Clarion ranks excellent,
takes All-American award
Presidency of the Student Asso-ciation
Senate and the Presidency
of the Association were severed
from each other by action of the
Association Senate at its last meet-ing
before vacation.
Senate members approved a mo-tion
submitted by Thomas Ford
and Gregory Saracoff to implement
the change made possible by the
constituional revision of March 12.
The President of the Senate would,
according to the new statute, serve
at the pleasure of the Senate and
would preside over Senate meet-ings.
The Rendahl Commission for con-stitutional
reforms had suggested
that the Constitution be revised
to allow for this possibility since
the President of the Association
"Far Right in America" will be
the topic presented by Dr. Erling
Jorstad who will be speaker at
Dr. Erling Jorstad
is not elected for his abilities to
preside over meetings.
The proposal was an enlargement
of one suggested by L. Ray Sam-mons
in 1967 and one suggested
by Ford in the autumn of 1968.
Both would have created a Speaker
and a Speaker pro tempore of the
Senate, to preside over parts of
the meeting.
The only negative feeling voiced
at the Senate meeting to Ford's
proposal was whether a fixed term
for the Senate President would be
better. A separate motion to make
Dennis L. Olson the first Senate
President, submitted by Ford and
Thomas Mesaros, was tabled until
the Ninth Senate took over April 1.
On motion of Janet Hurt and
Keith Anderson a committee was
a convocation planned for Thurs-day,
April 24.
Dr. Jorstad, who is currently
Associate Professor of History at
St. Olaf College in Northfield,
Minnesota, has just completed the
first volume of a proposed multi-volume
work concerning the re-sponse
of American churches and
churchmen to the changes in Am-erican
life since 1945. The name
of the volume, now at the publish-ers,
is The Fundamentalists of the
Far Right. He is also presently
doing a study of the resurgence
of conservatism following World
War II. Dr. Jorstad's field of in-terest
centers around recent Amer-ican
religious history.
Dr. Jorstad, who expects to be
promoted to full professor in Sept-ember,
is a graduate of St. Olaf
College. He did post graduate work
at Harvard University and receiv-ed
his doctorate from the Univer-sity
of Wisconsin.
established to "review" the com-munications
media and submit re-commendations
for 1969-70, and
(make) suggestions for budget dis-bursements.
Earlier in the meeting Graydon
Held, comptroller of Bethel, dis-cussed
finances. He noted that pro-posed
enrollment for 1969-70 is
the equivilent of 1025 full-time stu-dents
and that like an industry, the
college needs to define its product,
and that both gifts and tuition are
ascending. On motion of Thomas
Mesaros, his report was accepted
with thanks — an extraordinary
event.
(ACP)—A counter-revolution is
emerging on some college campus-es
as students are organizing to
oppose disruptive demonstrations.
One group calls itself SPASM—
The Society for Prevention of Asi-nine
Student Movements. It was
born at Wichita State University
where students staged a "milk-in"
as a "peaceful, intelligent and legal
demonstration" in protest of pro-tests.
At Michigan State University
more than ten thousand students
have signed petitions condemning
"intimidation, violence and disrup-tion."
A group of U.S. Marines studying
at Purdue University have organ-ized
a drive to collect 500 pints of
blood for hospitals—a student an-swer
to disturbances on other cam-puses.
Sgt. Allen Force, a native of San
Francisco who is heading the drive,
said he intends to show that "the
activists, rioting and burning build-ings
are a small minority repre-senting
colleges falsely. The aver-
The Clarion recently received
notification that it has been award-ed
an All-American rating for the
first semester of the 1968-69 school
year.
Evaluation of collegiate news-papers
is a service of Associated
Collegiate Press at the University
of Minnesota's School of Journal-ism.
Student newspapers from
more than 600 colleges and uni-versities
across the nation are
Dennis Olsen was elected Senate
President at Wednesday's Senate
meeting. He will serve until re-called
by the Senate.
The Senate also passed a reso-lution
to make arrangements for
the coffee shop to be left open
Sunday night until midnight.
The Senate moved postponement
of class elections for two weeks.
This will allow members of tour-ing
performing organizations such
as Male Chorus a chance to par-ticipate
in the elections.
age student doesn't dare to get up
and speak against these activists.
This blood drive gives the student
an opportunity to say what he be-lieves
without any particular talent
for rhetoric."
judged on the basis of content,
writing and makeup in categories
based on enrollment, frequency of
publication and method of printing.
This is the second consecutive
semester that the Clarion has a-chieved
the All-American rank and
the sixth semester it has earned
the highest rating since becoming
a member of ACP in 1954.
The Clarion was grouped with
32 other papers, all weeklies put
out by colleges with enrollments
of 701-1200, for its evaluation this
year.
Ratings are based on a system
with 4,000 points representing the
highest possible score. A total of
3,700 points are needed to achieve
All-American recognition.
Officials from the School of Jour-nalism
said this week that the
highest score recorded out of the
32 entries in this catagory was The
Star, from Houghton (N.Y.) College,
which accumulated a total of 3,870.
The Clarion was given a total score
of 3,800.
The Clarion received its highest
score in regard to its news cover-age,
which included areas of news
sources, treatment of copy, bal-ance
and creativeness. Several
other areas judged very highly
were content (sports coverage and
editorial page features took per-fect
scores), makeup (perfect
scores on front page and sports
display) and photography (perfects
in picture content and captions).
Convoction analyzes "far right"
Groups react to campus unrest,
stage counter-demonstrations
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the CLARION Friday, April 18, 1969
Students can influence
campus housing plans
Bethel is in a position now that it has never been in before
and may never be in again. And Bethel students now have an
opportunity that very few students ever have.
Bethel is designing a new campus from scratch on a
beautiful site, and Bethel students can help. Hundreds of de-cisions
made in the next few years will affect everyone at
Bethel twenty-four hours a day for the next fifty years.
Making the right decisions will take a great deal of fore-sight.
The campus planners know that every poor move will
be the target of half a century of Monday morning quarterbacks,
and that most of those critics will be students. So they' want to
know what students will be thinking tomorrow. The best way
to find out, though it is far from perfect, is to find out what
they are thinking today.
Most of the discussion about the new campus has cen-tered
around housing, especially since tentative plans were
released for four dormitory clusters as the only accomodations.
A Senate survey showed, if nothing else, that an overwhelming
majority of students would object to four years of dorm life.
Of the different types of housing, dorms are the easiest
(and cheapest) to build and maintain, and the easiest to control
— they are far more suited to social regulations than apart-ments,
for instance. They also foster a sense of community
far more easily than any other type of housing.
But they are still, from the student's point of view, the
least desirable housing. They are the least homelike, the
least individualized, the least private, the least free. It is a
fact of life that most social activities consist of people in pairs
and that there are times when those pairs want to be by them-selves.
A dorm room, because it is a bedroom, cannot be
opened freely to visitors of the opposite sex, so there is no
way that a dorm room can offer that chance to be alone.
But if not dorms, what? Apartments? With two people or
four? With kitchens or without? Should everyone be required
to live on campus? Should freshmen be required to live in the
dorms?
The problems are many and the decisions have to be
made. The planners are open to (and eager for) suggestions
from students — talk to Mr. Phil Carlson, or talk to someone
in the Student Services Office, or write a letter to the Clarion,
but speak up!
A rousing election
Record turnout favors Shupe's write-in candidacy
by Faith Zwemke
"A completely unique experi-ence,"
was the comment of a stu-dent
following his participation in
Bethel's recent first annual Foren-sic
Festival.
This comment was one of many
which emphasized the excitement
and enthusiasm that evolved from
the tournament. According to the
director of the event, instructors,
administrators, and students, "For-ensic
Fun" was a resounding suc-cess.
The whole idea of such a local
tournament emerged out of a con-versation
between Marg Erickson
a n d Don Rainbow following a
speech contest at another school.
Both expressed a desire to give
Bethel students a chance to com-pete
in contest speaking, and find-ing
this a good opportunity to
complete an independent study,
Marg took on the tremerldous task
of directing the event.
One of the chief concerns of
those involved in planning the
event was that the interest and
excitement in contest speaking
would be transmitted to Bethel
students who, for the most part,
were totally unfamiliar with speech
tournaments. Some speech students
were given the option of entering
the Festival in exchange for some
class work; others were required
to enter, and still others entered
purely for their own enjoyment.
Commenting about her efforts
to keep the level of excitement
high, Marg Erickson said, "During
the entire tournament we tried to
keep talking, and keep giving ev-eryone
that 'sock it to 'em line!"
The success of such efforts was
clearly illustrated by the change
of attitude from one of disdain to
one of excitement on the part of
those students who were required
to enter.
An encouraging result of the
tournament was the willingness
and desire of many students to par-ticipate
in upcoming tournaments
such as the one in Superior April
18 and 19.
Being the first of its kind at
Bethel, the Forensic Festival in-volved
many uncertainties of which
numbers and quality were not
among the least. The total of those
participating was nearly 100 stu-dents
which was delightfully above
most expectations. The quality of
the tournament also ranked above
par, according to Rainbow, who in-dicated
that the quality and com-petition
here was keener than at
many tournaments Bethel students
have participated in on other cam-puses.
Judges were much aware of the
rigid competition and repeatedly
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
"A 'Relevant Theology" will be
Dr. Clarence Bass's theme for his
three chapel messages next week.
On Monday he will discuss "Un-derstanding
God in a Secular Age."
Tuesday his topic will be "Reve-lation
of Contemporaneous Exper-ience,"
in which he will discuss the
modern Christian's view of Scrip-ture.
"The Theology of Irreligious
Religion" will be his topic on Wed-nesday.
Dr. Bass is professor of
David A. Shupe, write-in candi-date
for Student Association Presi-dent
emerged the victor in what
was the most rousing Student As-sociation
election recalled at Beth-el
in recent years.
A record nearly 70 percent of
the student population turned ont
to vote for their choice for the
posts of president, vice president,
senators-at-large and class senate
seats.
Shupe had been eliminated from
the presidential contest by only
four votes in the primary election
on March 21 when they received
third highest vite of the five can-didates
who filed for the office.
In spite of vigorous campaigns
by the top two presidental con-tenders,
Shupe's backing by a "Co-alition
of Concerned Students"
proved successful as he claimed
51 percent of the student votes. A
total of 636 write-in votes were
cast for Shupe with Bruce Otto
claiming 163 votes and Tom Mesa-ros
received 147 votes.
Dave's votes were consistenly
two to one over the other two
candidates in each of the four
classes' voting totals.
It was "an election board night-mare"
as a 10-man emergency
crew counted ballots from the time
the voting poll closed until about
10:30 p.m. Including Shupe's vote,
there were about 1,000 write-in
ballots cast as at least 150 differ-ent
students got into the show with
small write-in support.
In the vice presidential race,
Richard Berggren was the top can-stated
that choosing winners was
extremely difficult. Nevertheless,
they finally arrived at winners in
poetry, prose, oratory, after-dinner
speaking, extemporaneous speak-ing,
and readers' theatre.
Karen Nelson, and Gayle Nelson
received first place trophies re-spectively,
in poetry and prose, and
Wibby Smith won in oratory. Sher-ie
Lindvall and Jon Peterson took
top honors, respectively, in after-dinner
and extemporaneous speak-ing,
and H. McLeod, M. Erickson,
W. Smith, and J. Palen were the
winners in readers' theatre. Jon
Peterson also won the individual
sweepstakes award.
Because of numerous favorable
reactions and comments about the
tournament, speech enthusiasts
hope and predict that the Forensic
Festival will be a continuing event
at Bethel.
theology in Bethel Seminary and
is a popular speaker.
Thursday will be convocation day,
advertised elsewhere in this issue.
Dr. Clifford Larson who served
as Dean of our College for ten
years and is currently professor
of Christian education and acting
Dean of our Seminary, and who
has accepted a position in Fuller
Seminary, will be our Friday speak-er.
This will be his farewell mes-sage
after twenty years of service
at Bethel.
Dave Shupe
didate with a total of 365 votes.
Maurice Zaffke came in second
with 208 votes. Other vice presi-dential
vote getters were: Ron
Hendrickson, 19; Greg Saracoff, 9;
Dennis Zaderaka,2, and one each
for Shupe, Otto and D. Gibson.
Run-offs had to be scheduled
to determine the fifth senator-at-large
(between Barbara Jahr and
Norma Wilcox) and the third class
of 1971 senate seat (between Dale
Berry, Keith Anderson, James Carl-son
and Diane Mattson).
The senator-at-large contest re-sulted
in some oddities as there
were 1,184 abstentions and exactly
100 different write-in candidates
who received less than 25 votes.
Winners of the five senator-at-by
Barb Jahr
In the minds of many Minneso-tan's
the tragic "natural acts of
God" are confined to areas quite
distant, geographically speaking.
However, the spring thaw of 1969
has made such realities into night-mares.
Bethel students returning from
Easter vacation viewed scenes of
loss hard to comprehend as reality.
Water, one of the things Minne-sota
prides itself on having a great
abundance of, has turned into a
violent destructive force. In the
Midwest at least 9,000 persons have
been and will continue to be kept
Baby boom
takes its toll
(ACP)—As a result of the war-baby
boom there's a severe short-age
of eligible men for today's
marriageable girls. Girls who would
normally have married for the first
time in 1967, 1968 or 1969 are the
victims of what Dr. Paul C. Glick,
assistant chief, Population Division,
U.S. Bureau of Census, calls the
"marriage squeeze."
At the time of the 1947 "baby
boom" nobody stopped to think
that girls would probably want to
marry 'boys two years older (born
1945) and that there were a half
million more girls born in 1947
than there were boys born in 1945.
Five possibilities for coping with
the man shortage problem and the
marriage squeeze: 1) go after the
hardcore bachelors 2) rob the cra-dle,
3) displace older wives, 4) wait
for the boys their age to grow up,
or 5) stay single.
Richard Berggren
large positions were: A. Dean Pear-son,
338; Elden John Elseth, 312;
Patricia Faxon, 294; Marjorie M.
Rusche, 289; and Norma Wilcox,
who claimed the run-off victory.
Others who received 25 or more
votes were: W. J. Painter, 46; Greg-ory
Saracoff, 43; Charles Myrbo,
35; and Maurice Zaffke, 25.
Class of '70 senate seats went
to: Janet Hurt, 104 votes; Linda
Sparks, 96, and Steven Lambrides,
66. Newly elected senators for the
class of '71 are: Douglas Warring,
131; Karen Nelson, 121; and James
Carlson, winner of that run-off
election. The Class of '72 elected:
Thomas Ford, 158; Wendell Wahlin,
142; Leland Granlund, 106; and
Philip Humbert, 104.
from their homes until the deluge
ends.
In Minnesota approximately 3,-
018 were homeless, South Dakota
came in second with 1,000, Wiscon-sin
about 400 and Iowa 60.
Through Minot, North Dakota
runs the Mouse River. The Mouse
is becoming a vicious beast seek-ing
whom it may devour, and the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers es-timated
that 7,000 people will have
to be evacuated before the crest
this week.
In the Twin Cities the floods
have led to inconvenient traffic
problems and some minor property
damage, in contrast to the vast
destruction elsewhere. In St. Paul
the Mississippi and Minnesota riv-ers
were expected to crest this
week, and the Union Depot has
been closed since last Friday.
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by Pat Faxon
Both sides won.
An experimental attempt to en-courage
church attendance among
Bethel students who are living in
the dorms has been deemed a suc-cess.
Church attendance has been
stimulated and those students who
have no desire to attend Sunday
School but appreciate the church
service, have been granted the op-portunity
to do just that.
'Both Central and Trinity Baptist
Churches report that increased at-tendance
of Bethelites via the 10:30
a.m. buses has been very satisfac-tory.
Central Baptist Church makes
this statement, adding that there
has been no decrease in the num-ber
of 9:30 passengers.
The two churches plan to con-tinue
sending buses at 10:30. Mrs.
Alice Johnson, manager of food
services, who reports a worthwhile
increase in Sunday morning break-fast
attendance, also plans to con-tinue
the extension to 10:15 of that
meal.
by Lynn Bergfalk
The spirit of Huck Finn and Tom
Sawyer grabbed two adventurous
Bethel men over spring break, lur-them
down to Missouri for six
days on the Mississippi.
Ron Pederson and Douglas John
Carlson lashed a borrowed canoe
to the top of Ron's car, drove down
to St. Louis where they launched
the canoe on a tributary of the
Mississippi. Twenty miles later they
entered the Mississippi, which they
followed 140 miles to Cairo, Illi-nois,
where the Ohio River joins
the Father of Waters.
Except for two nights and a day
in Cape Girardeau, home of South-east
Missouri State College, Ron
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The current production at East-side
Theatre is the world premiere
of the English adaption of Isaac
Chocron's "Asia and the Far East."
The play is about patriotism, revo-lution,
the generation gap — that
much is obvious. But what it says
about patriotism, revolution, and
the generation gap isn't obvious at
all.
The play is rambling, ambiguous,
trite, and unbelievingly uninvolv-ing.
It's a musical, but the songs
do nothing to save the play. They
are sung lifelessly, and in many
cases unmusically.
This is the Eastside's sixty-fifth
production, advertised as "the
finest one of all." It is fortunate
for the Eastside Theatre that that's
not true.
and Doug stuck to the river, camp-ing
out along the way.
They traveled light, taking only
nutrient, vitamin tablets, oranges,
bananas, toilet paper, sleeping bags,
a tent, an ax, a pen knife from
Ron's key chain and a can opener.
Ron reported that it was a re-laxing
trip, and that the mile-wide
Mississippi, although high, was not
difficult to navigate. The most ev-entful
part of the trip came while
on land, particularly when attempt-ing
to get back to St. Louis and
Ron's car.
Landing in Cairo, the duo had
planned to rent a car and drive
back to St. Louis with the canoe.
However, they found that they
were too young to rent a car,
although they managed to borrow
a battered pickup with which they
hauled their canoe to a local gas
station for storage.
Then, deciding that bus fare
was too expensive, they tried hitch-hiking.
That failed, so they flew
to Cape Giradeau by private plane.
Doug then took a commercial
flight to St. Louis in order to get
the car which had been left at the
home of (believe it or not) Mrs.
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She and Doug hunted for the
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was a "young-looking sixty," ac-cording
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on return from Great Lakes tour
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Friday, April 18, 1969
Spring break happenings • • • Students
'Palefaces' combine
witness with sunshine
What influence can seventeen
Christian college students have up-on
a swinging collegiate beach
town like Ft. Lauderdale?
Late Friday afternoon, April 4,
saw 11 very pale Bethel students
pile into 2 cars and head for the
southern regions of Fort Lauder-dale,
Florida. With great confi-dence
that the Lord was sending
them to receptive people on the
beaches and the strip, this eager
group set off.
Driving through fog and rain,
the group finally saw the famed
beaches of Daytona at 7:00 a.m. on
Sunday.
With only a few miles to go,
(compared to the 1600 already cov-ered)
they soon set out again for
Ft. Lauderdale. As they traveled
down Florida's coast, the r a i n s
caught them again and so it was
decided to take a side trip to
Cape Kennedy.
Impressed by man's feats in
space, but more excited about God's
love for man, Ft. Lauderdale be-came
the next stop.
Lauderdale Baptist Church had
anticipated their arrival and this
group of Beach Missionaries re-ceived
the most warm and hospita-ble
reception possible. Many people
in this small church had opened
their homes to the young people
and in some cases were disappoint-ed
to learn their stay was for
only one week and not for two.
In the meantime, another ear-ful
of students had left St. Paul
and arrived ready to 'hit the beach-es'
on Monday morning.
Armed with suntan oils, towels,
Campus Crusade's "Four Spiritual
Laws" booklets, and the National
Collegiate Religious Surveys, the
two-man teams began talking about
the love of God to collegians from
all over the U.S. Decisions were
made and people prayed but the
day on the beaches was not all.
In the evening the young people
met to walk the strip and once
again decisions were made, prayers
said and lives changed.
One fellow who prayed was just
in town for the day and was going
home to Central America that next
morning. Two others were so ex-cited
they grabbed the Bethelites
and hurried them down the street
to "tell our friends because it's
so wonderful."
Other decisions were made quiet-ly
and thoughtfully as though they
had just been waiting for that
important question to be asked,
Dave Pound, junior co-captain
of the team, commented that mira-cles
still happen in this era. The
team didn't have a lot of talent,
but he is sure that God was work-ing
in the witness that they had.
Staying in homes was an en-riching
experience for both the
Bethelites and their hosts. Dave
Dale Saxon couldn't resist just
a little monkey business
"Is there any reason why you
wouldn't like to receive Christ
right now?"
As for the next year, the group
promised the small church con-gregation
that Bethelites would at-tempt
to double their size if the
church would provide housing a-gain.
The returning 17 students were
a little tanner and a lot more ex-cited
about witnessing for the God
of greatness and love that they
are privileged to have as their
own.
mentioned how strong the bond
of Christ seemed to be because it
was so easy to feel at home and
have fellowship with complete
strangers.
During the normal part of the
season, a track team will have one
meet and maybe two per week.
However, when five meets are
crowded into ten days, with an
extra work-out on the side thrown
in, something has to give. In fact,
the team did give. The rigorous
schedule put them into top con-dition,
and despite the fact that
they only won one meet, individual
performances got better and better.
The team had ten days of top-notch
weather to help make the
trip a lot of fun rather than a lot
of hard work. For a team which
does not have indoor facilities such
as Macalester, Wisconsin State
schools, and others, ,Bethel's track
trip is a unique and rewarding at
tempt to compensate for adverse
circumstances.
Amidst admonitions and bene-dictions
of well-wishers, three in-trepid
students departed from the
Twin Cities on April 2 with little
more than their knapsacks and
what proved to be some very lucky
thumbs.
Before the journey was over, Jan-et
Appelquist, Sarah Buell, and
Ed Hall had covered hundreds of
miles and found themselves in New
York City on April 4, forming the
first 3/5 of a 5-man welcoming
committee for less adventurous stu-dents
who chose to fly out for the
Art Department tour over Easter
break.
Two other hikers, Jim Skolman
and Randy Cahill (a non-Bethel-ite),
jointed the small group of
three to await the arrival of the
by Wally Borner Such track trips generally fea-
Coach Glader states that he ture a dual role as the men double
knows of no other college in the as a "tract" team. In exchange for
area that does what the Bethel meals and lodging, they participate
College Track Team does—that is, in church services and youth meet-go
on an extended outstate trip ings. This year's squad is not par-during
the early part of the season. titularly blessed with a great deal
And thanks to Minnesota's unpre- of talent; however, Dwight Carl-dictable
spring, such a trip works son's trumpet and a male chorus
to the great advantage of the team. which sang in unison most of the
Coach Glader's thinclads left at time, provided a musical worship
noon Thursday, April 3 for a ten- experience. The musical presen-day
trip with five meets. They took tation was rounded out with tes-two
stationwagons and fourteen timonies.
squad members, (two of whom had
to return home early) and embark-ed
on their rigorous, yet economi-cal
excursion.
The men stayed in homes of
people from conference churches a-long
much of the way. They spent
one night on the campus of Tarkio
in Missouri, and two nights at
Bethel of Kansas.
Cindermen double as gospel team
Vacation track trip is unique experience
by Karen Rodberg
Just back from their concert
tour of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan, the Bethel College
Choir presents its homecoming
concert at 8 p.m. today in the
fieldhouse.
The Choir's repertoire features
works from every musical period
since the Renaissance. The major
work is Darius Milhaud's "The Two
Cities," which employs some of the
more modern choral techniques.
Also included in the concert are
several hymn arrangements and
be physically exciting and times
when the messages of each song be-came
especially meaningful to each
member of the choir.
Of course there were times of
fun or, when nothing could go
right—times like beginning the day
at 5 a.m., or watching one member
fall up the risers mid-concert, or
finding yourself being handed
Rich Trinity's red socks in the mid-dle
of a song, or getting even with
a business manager and assistant
conductor, or playing football in
a marsh.
a spiritual. The choir arrived back on cam-
The choir's tour brought a num- pus at 4:15 a.m. Tuesday—a bit
ber of memorable experiences, weary after a rigorous schedule
some aesthetic, some spiritual, and and 14 concerts, but all agreeing
some hilarious. There were times that the tour was well worth their
when acoustics were so live as to time.
rest of the students on Sunday, ler Center, Times Square, the Em-
April 6. pire State Building, the United
Robert Clark Nelson, design Nations, Grand Central Station and
teacher from 'Bethel, led a 7-day the NBC studios.
tour for 16 students (including Mrs. Central Park and Greenwich Vil-
Gduetrya alds cHheaapleyr wonheo a snedr vheeda dd ochuebfl e- loge were two fascinating places
and meal planner). Trinity Baptist the group went. Many of the stu-
Church provided sleeping accomo- dents took the Staten Island Ferry
dations and a kitchen where the boat ride past the Statue of Liberty.
group ate breakfast before leaving The fare was only 5c (which is
for each day's tour. about the cheapest thing in the
As the week wore on, so the whole city of New York).
shoes wore out. The group visited Several students went to the all-some
80 or 90 galleries, most of black cast production of "Hello,
which consisted of one-man shows Dolly!".
contained in the private one-room All in all, the group agreed it
galleries which abound in New was an exciting week which left
York City. Among other activities, the art students with very sore
the group visited Lincoln Center feet but some great ideas for new
for the Performing Arts, Rockefel- works.
"Thumbs-up" all the way
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and staff members take to the road
by Marjorie Rusche
Small private colleges in trouble
Chicago was the site of the As-sociation
of Higher Education Ex-ecutives
conference on the "private
college prediciment." James Bragg,
director of admissions, attended
this session.
"Small private colleges across
the country are in trouble; some
are closing down due to lack of
funds," Bragg noted. "They are
pricing themselves out of a mar-ket.
This year, for the first time
in U.S. educational history, there
has been a decrease in small pri-vate
college enrollment."
Up to three years ago, Bethel
was trying to discourage students
from coming. A new admissions
department was just instituted Feb.
1 and should be in full operation by
Sept. 1, Bragg said.
"A full-scale recruitment pro-gram
is needed to keep enrollment
up during the next five years
when a financial squeeze on small
private colleges is coming. This
recruitment and retention program
must cut across department lines.
"The entire faculty must be com-mitted
to these areas. We must
realize that the school exists for
students, not for the board of edu-cation,
business office, administra-tion,
faculty, or alumni."
Many private colleges have re-ceived
cut-backs in funds for finan-cial
aids programs. The fund-short-age
in state and federal govern-ments
is so acute public education
funds are being drastically cut.
In order for a small private col-lege
to survive, Bragg feels, they
must have a great deal of consti-tuent
loyalty; and there are new
factors threatening the loyalty of
the General Baptist Conference
constituency to Bethel.
"There is a trend among minis-ters
to suggest attendance at a
state college and involvement in
one of the Christian organizations
on campus there to their high
school students. Furthermore, pas-tors
are decreasing in influence as
far as a choice of college is con-cerned
for most high schools now
have a counseling program for
students interested in college, and
this program emphasizes state
schools.
"The sophistication and growth
of junior colleges cuts down on
applicants, Another factor is the
state's extensive scholarship and
grant programs."
Bragg feels an action that would
encourage enrollment at Bethel
would be an honest straightforward
approach in printed materials de-signed
to interest prospective stu-dents
and to the whole admissions
criteria.
"We should not be striving to
create a 'pure' student body. The
college must not be afraid to ident-ify
what students really think. In-stead
of asking on an admissions
application form, 'Have you ever
accepted Jesus Christ as your per-sonal
Savior?' we should be more
concerned with a question like 'Are
you interested in seriously examin-ing
the Christian faith?'," Bragg
suggested.
Finlay forcasts computerization
Improved management of data
was the concern of the Upper Mid-west
Association of Collegiate Reg-istrars
and Admissions Officers
Conference held April 9, 10, 11, at
Augustana College in Sioux Falls,
S.D.
Dr. Paul Finlay, registrar, picked
up valuable information about
streamlining record systems at the
conference.
As things stand now at Bethel,
each administrative office has a
different type of data system for
gathering and recording informa-tion
about students.
The school plans to work towards
a correlation of these various rec-ords
in the financial aids, student
services, admissions, accounting
and eventually alumni offices. This
can be done by standardizing the
data and computerizing it through
a data processing system.
Bethel hopes to have standardiz-ed
data before the campus moves
to the Arden Hills site.
Chaplains in vulnerable position
A self-study of chaplains occur-red
at the Association of College
and University Chaplain's confer-ence
at Pitzer College in Claremont
Calif. April 8-11.
Pastor Lawson attended the con-ference,
at which representatives
from administration, faculty, and
student groups were present to
give their impressions of chaplain-cy.
"The administrators there were
sympathetic to the idea of chap-laincy.
There was a general feel-ing
among faculty members that we
are now living in a post-Christian
era and there is little place for a
man of religion. A few of the
students were openly hostile to
the idea of chaplaincy."
Pastor Lawson noted a great
concern of the men at the con-ference
over student protests. He
spoke of the men he met. "Many
of the chaplains there are looked
to for leadership by social action
groups due to their marginal posi-tion.
Most of the chaplains are in
a very vulnerable position — they
have no contract, no tenure, and
can be dismissed on a day's no-tice.
Generally quite dedicated and
caught in the role of mediator be-theologically
liberal, they a r e
tween student groups and adminis-trators."
Women Deans "doing a new thing"
"Behold! We are doing a New
Thing" — the theme of the Nation-al
Association of Women Deans and
Counselors conference in Atlanta,
Georgia — reflects the growing de-mand
for challenging new pro-grams
and methods of instruction
on today's campuses.
Bethel was represented at the
April 10-13 conference by Marilyn
Starr, Dean of Women.
Concern was expressed at the
conference over student unrest.
Dean Starr noted, "There is a gen-eral
trend towards tighter and
firmer administration among this
nation's schools. There is the feel-ing
that the administration must
clearly define the rules and stan-dards
of the schools, print them,
give them out, and then enforce
them firmly."
Another trend among college ad-ministrators
was a drive towards
more liberal hours and stricter
visitation. "There is a good possi-bility
for liberalization of hours
next year," Miss Starr stated, "how-ever,
I would like to see more visi-tation
in the lounges and less in the
rooms — including Falcon Manor
as well as the girls' manors. Extra
funds would be necessary to make
improvement in the lounges."
Programs that some schools are
using to encourage a "living-learn-ing"
type of atmosphere in the
dorms and campus include major
or scholarship floors or houses.
Individuals in a certain field or
with a certain G.P.A. would be
voluntarily grouped together on a
floor of a dorm or in a separate
house.
Miss Starr saw a limited possi-bility
of inaugurating this type of
program at Bethel. "It would be
difficult to have a language floor
or house at Bethel, for example,
because there isn't a language
major presently offered," she said.
As far as housing is concerned,
the trend on college campuses is
away from dormitories and towards
apartments. "We'll have to consi-der
this factor in New Campus
planning," Miss Starr stated. "How-ever,
there seems to be a general
GOLF SCORES
Out In Score
C Buettner 47 43 90
B Dave Anderson 34 38 72
C Steinhorst 50 52 102
B Steve Peterson 37 33 70
C Schalihor 41 49 90
B Murray Sitte 40 39 79
C Wudy 53 58 111
B Finch 37 37 74
C Lilleberg 62 63 125
B Moline 41 43 84
feeling that freshmen should still
live in dorms and have hour regu-lations."
Growing openness to experimental
education
Dr. Walter Wessel journeyed to
Sugar Hills resort at Grand Rap-ids,
Minn. last weekend to attend
the annual Minnesota Inter-college
faculty conference.
The conference concerned itself
with methods of improving college
teaching. Many new ideas were
presented and discussed.
One particular example of the
new trend in experimentation is
the development of a para-college
at St. Olaf. An initial enrollment of
70 is slated for its opening in the
fall of '69 with a projected enroll-ment
of 500.
The faculty of the magnus col-lege
will be hired by the regular
college, but will serve at the ex-perimental
college more in an ad-visory
capacity than in a straight
lecture capacity, Dr. Wessel said.
There are no required courses
that the students must take. The
whole curriculum is very unstruct-ured.
No grades are given.
Students may stay at the col-lege
for 3-5 years. When they feel
they are ready, students take two
comprehensive exams, one in their
area of concentration and one in
the area of general arts. Successful
completion of the two exams are
the only requirements for gradua-tion.
The long-range purpose of the
magnus college is to bring about
substantial change in the larger
college, according to Dr. Wessel.
Dr. Wessel feels there is a grow-ing
openness towards experimental
educational methods on Bethel's
campus. "This openness is evidenc-ed
by the adoption of the interim
term program."
"Hopefully, the new program will
influence the scheduling and pro-gramming
of regular semesters.
Greater flexibility is needed."
Individual Performances —
Track Trip
Name finishes
1 2 3 4 TP
Fritz Fredeen* 5 3 0 3 413/2
Bob Olsen*** 3 3 10 3 37
Andy Lehman** 1 7 6 1 34
Dave Pearson 1 4 2 1 22
Dave Pound* 2 2 1 1 201/2
Dwight Carlson 2 2 1 0 17
Phil James* 1 2 2 0 15112
Rick Berggren* 1 2 0 0 131/2
Dick Olson 0 2 4 0 11
Darrel Nelson 0 3 0 0 9
George Gulian 0 0 2 0 2
Jim Carlson 0 0 2 0 2
* Participated in mile relay which
took first place twice.
** Set School record in 176 yard
Intermediate hurdles-23.3
***Set School record in shot put-
46'6"; 176 yard dash-19.3
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Friday, April 18, 1969
Baseball team sweeps
doubleheader at NCBC
Bethel's Baseball team took a doubleheader from
North Central Bible College of Minneapolis Wednes-day,
The first game saw the Royals putting together
an eleven-hit attack for a 12-1 victory. The nightcap
was 8-0 with only five hits.
Bethel hit around in the first inning of the first
game and tallied five runs. Dean Ericson led off
with a double and came home on Jim Delich's
triple. Gary Clark and Steve Hanson each singled
and two walks and a sacrifice fly filled out the inning.
The second inning brought in three more runs
and they got single runs in each of the last four
innings. Doug Warring got on base without a hit
four times and scored three runs. Jim Delich went
3 for 3 with a single, double, and triple. Gary Clark
stroked three singles.
Lowell Richardson was the winning pitcher and
was given help from Gary Clark and Bill Painter. They
combined to limit NOBC to four hits.
In the second game, the Royals started out the
same way — this time collecting four runs. They
only managed two hits, but had five walks.
In two innings, Bethel scored without getting
a hit. Their five hits were all singles. Dean Ericson
picked up two hits, with Gary Clark, Doug Warring,
and Bob Brodin picking up one.
Brodinski picked up the win giving up one hit.
Dean Ericson pitched two innings, and NCBC picked
up their second run off Delich in the last inning.
Bethel bobbled the ball only once in the two
games. Bethel's defense this year consists of Bill
Englund behind the plate with Bill Painter backing
him up. The infield is Dean Ericson at first, Doug
Warring at second, Jim Delich at third, with Brodin
and Jim Feldman switching at short. The outfield
is Dick Hunter, Gary Clark, and Steve Hanson from
left to right field.
SPORTS CALENDAR
April 18-24
18 Baseball, Twins vs. California
18 Tennis, Bethel vs. River Falls
IRON MAN OF BETHEL TRACK
Bob Olsen began the season as Bethel's
weight man. However, he has developed into
the teams No. 1 man in the short distance
dashes and a steady performer in the long
and triple jumps. Twice this year he has
broken the school shot put record.
19 Baseball, Bethel at Albert Lea (2)
19 Track, Bethel at Carleton Relays
19 Baseball, Twins vs. California
20 Baseball, Twins vs. California
21 Tennis, Bethel at Gustavus
21 Baseball, Twins vs. Oakland
22 Baseball, Twins vs. Oakland
22 Golf, Bethel vs. Stout State
23 Baseball, Bethel at Carleton
23 Baseball, Twins at Oakland
23 Tennis, Bethel at Hamline ,
24 Baseball, Twins at Oakland
Track trip yields stiff competition, fine conditioning
Seddiete Symposium
New look in the Major Leagues
(Guest Editorial)
by Jim Youngquist
Spring has arrived and with it the beginning of a new
baseball season. Already in its second week, some are still
attempting to get things straight. With the new season has
come four new teams and an expansion into four divisions
of the teams. Also the addition of new teams has resulted in
an extra number of unknowns among the players. The result
could be a wild scramble for rookie of the year honors.
How will the new season shape up? Added to the Ameri-can
League were Seattle and Kansas City. Without Charles
0. Finley to liven things, K.C. might draw less fans than two
years ago.
In the West it will be a three way battle among Chicago,
Minnesota, and Oakland. Chicago and Oakland must rely on
their pitching to pull on top. With the Twins it will be up
to how well Billy Martin leads his forces. With Lopez back in
control and if the Sox can produce a few more runs, it should
be Chicago in the West.
Over in the East there appears to be a five team battle
for the title. All except the Senators have excellent chances
to win it, though Detroit would have to be the favored team.
Entering the year as world champions, the Tigers are
coming back with all but one starter. This is the sharp fielder
Ray Oyler who hit a sizzling .135 last year. McLain, a 31-game
winner last year, Lolich, and Wilson head up the pitching staff.
Then with names such as Mickey Stanley, Willie Horton, Al
Kathie, Norm Cash, Bob Freehan, and Dick McCauliffe in the
lineup, the Tigers will be hard to stop. Rivaling the Tigers
closest will likely be Boston, if Lonborg and Tony Conigliaro
can recover from last year's injuries.
Unlike the American League, the divisions in the National
League are not grouped geographically. For lack of better
terms, unfortunately, they are also divided into East and West.
Favored in the East is St. Louis. Stripped of their title as
World champions by Detroit, they will be shooting for revenge.
Likely to challenge their bid will be the Cubs under the reins
of "Leo the Lip." With "Grandpa" Banks leading the way,
and some help from the pitchers it could be a fierce fight for
the divison title. Included in the division is Montreal, the first
Major League team outside the United States. With a little
luck and some pitchers the Expos may climb to fifth in their
first year.
Traditional rivals, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the
same division, help make the West better balanced. Four
teams, the Giants, Braves, Reds, and Dodgers have a good chance
for the top. Yet with Marichal heading the moundsmen and
Mays the hitters, San Francisco must get the edge. San Diego,
an expansion team, will sweat and toil to win a third of their
games.
Tenth place is now in the past. With the division of the
leagues, teams like the Mets and Astros are hard put. Not
only are they unable to end up tenth but they also have com-petition
for their position from the Expos and Padres.
On the other hand the divisions yield four races instead
of two. It should heighten interest in baseball by increasing
the possibility of at least one or more close races. The division-al
leaders at the season's end are first to pair off in a best of
three-out-of-five series within their leagues. These winners
then will play in the traditional World Series. Who the Series
winner will be anyone's guess—this observer sees the San
Francisco Giants as the new world champs!
drubbed in vacation action
Bethel's track team hit the road
during Easter vacation on a trip
which took them to five meets in
five states. Though they did not
come back with a load of impres-sive
victories, the trip was very
worthwhile for the conditioning of
the team.
The squad left Thursday, April
3 and had a meet that afternoon
with the Mankato State College "B"
squad. Mankato appeared to be
running away with the meet when
they held a 25 point bulge with
only three events to be reported.
Then Bethel jumped back by tak-ing
each place except for a second
in the three jumping events. The
Royals lost by only 63-59.
The next meet was the South Da-kota
Invitational and included 15
teams from the midwest area. This
was the stiffest competition that
Bethel has seen and they picked
up the 12th spot with only a total
of 7 team points.
Fritz Fredeen took fourth in the
120 yard high hurdles and in the
440 yard intermediate hurdles. An-dy
Lehman jumped to a third
place finish in the triple jump.
The first dual outdoor meet was
against a newcomer to the Bethel
schedule. Tarkio College in Tarkio,
Missouri provided the opposition
for Bethel's first win of the sea-son.
The score was 69-66 but in
Golfers sizzle in
The duffers really did it. And for
the first match of the season, it
was an impressive victory.
However, when you only consid-er
the competition, we can't really
brag up the golf team because last
Monday Concordia of St. Paul was
unable to mount anything of a
threat. Murray Sitte was the only
golfer who had any pressure. He
led his opponent by only one stroke
after the front nine but took a ten
stroke edge coming in.
When one considers how the
weather has prevented the team
from getting much action on the
the light of Bethel's main problem
this year, no depth, it was a very
good victory.
Tarkio, in fact, took 11 of the 16
first place honors. However, Bethel
took 12 second place and 11 third
place finishes.
Phil James put out his best per-formance
of the year in the 440
by taking first place with a time
of :51.6. Fritz Fredeen took first
place in both hurdle events. How-ever,
the one who is becoming the
iron man of the squad is Bob
Olsen. Bob took first place in the
shot put as he broke his own record
with a toss of 46'6". He took sec-ond
place in the broad and triple
jumps and third place in the 100
yard dash, javelin, 220 yard dash,
and discus.
Returning to Bethel College in
North Newton, Kansas, the Royals
came into a bit of misfortune. Two
years ago, Coach Glader's squad
easily disposed of their Kansas
namesake. But this year the com-bination
of a much stronger oppo-nent
and our own small numbers
spelled defeat by the score of 74-
71.
The Royals were strong in the
hurdles and distance races as Fre-deen
once again took first in both
hurdle events and Dwight Carlson
took first in both the mile and S-mile
race.
opening meet
links prior to this first match, one
wonders what kind of guys we have
at Bethel when six of them post
sub-80 scores.
Concordia only had five men and
so Bethel sent Dave Anderson,
Steve Peterson, Sitte, Dale Finch,
and Bill Moline against them. Steve
shot a scorching 70 and Dave post-ed
a 72 stroke score. The five men
combined to win the meet by 139
strokes.
The rest of the team went the
full 18 holes also with Jerry Loomis
and Jim Lindberg postion scores
of 76 and 77 respectively.
The event that stung, however,
was the first event. In the 440-
yard relay, the Royals won by half
a second. But the Kansas team was
awarded first place points due to
a baton exchange in the wrong
lane. That five point error cost the
meet.
The final meet of the trip was
in Waverly, Iowa where Bethel
joined William Penn College in a
triangular meet against Wartburg.
Bethel was outclassed as the final
score ended William Penn 87,
Wartburg 71, Bethel 22. At the
finish line for first place, Bethel
was completely shut out. Dave
Pearson was high performance man
with a second, third, and fourth
place finish in high, triple, and
broad jumps respectively.
With that grueling schedule be-hind
them, the team is now in top
condition. Saturday the team will
travel- to Northfield to participate
in the Carleton Relays.
Diamondmen
by Wally Borner
The diamondmen took it on the
chin, but at least not without try-ing.
In their April 10 opener a-gainst
Carleton, Bethel dropped a
six to two decision. The problem?
No key hits and no depth in the
pitching.
Concordia held a two-zip lead
going into the eighth inning when
they scored twice more on two
walks, two singles, and an error.
In the bottom of the inning, Dick
Hunter reached base on an error
and later scored on an error.
However, Concordia scored their
fifth and sixth runs in the top of
the ninth. Don Craft singled to
open Bethel's half of the inning and
scored on Dean Ericson's single.
However, the rally didn't get going
and the team lost a ticker.
The key hit that never came?
In the second inning, Bethel loaded
the bases with one out Steve Han-son
hit into a double play. In the
third inning Gary Clark opened
with a double but was stranded
there. With the bases loaded and
no one out in the seventh, the
Carleton pitcher managed to get
two Royals to pop up and the other
to whiff. And so Bethel won in the
left on base category, as they
stranded 11.
Two days later, the team traveled
to Eau Claire and were trounced
in a double header 13-2 and 9-1.
Again the relief pitching wasn't
there as a Royal reliever gave up
eight runs in the sixth inning of
the first game.
,Bethel's two runs came early.
In the second inning, Doug Warring
singled in Gary Clark. The follow-ing
frame temporarily brought
Bethel to its feet as Dick Hunter
blasted the ball over the center-field
fence. In both of those in-nings,
however, the Eau Claire
pitcher struck out the side.
In the nightcap, Eau Claire
struck early as they scored four
times in the first inning, three in
the second, and twice in the third.
The Royal's loan run came in
the third when Doug Warring
walked and came home on Jim De-lich's
double. Once again, Bethel
had the bases loaded with one out
on two occasions, but could not
'bring anyone across the plate.
This year, the pitching load is
almost entirely on Lowell Richard-son
and Bob Brodin. Both are fine
hurlers, however, this early in the
season, they can't pitch seven or
nine innings without tiring.
The hitting has not been any-thing
to get excited about yet. Bill
Englund has three hits in seven
at bats and Dean Ericson is 3 for 11.
Other than that, no one has more
than one hit and the team has not
been able to get more than six
hits in a game.
If the hits start falling and the
two sophomore pitchers can get
some help, the season will be good.
But until then, there will be no
joy in Mudville.

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Vol. XLIII—No. 24
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, April 18, 1969
Senators create office of presidency
TABLE-FULL OF TROPHIES
Eight first place winners were named in Bethel's recent
first annual. Forensics Festival. (See story . . . page 2)
"Unique Mandate" for Shupe
President-elect plans action
DAVE SHUPE
by Marjorie Rusche
"I am not afraid of committing myself to a cause
once I have made up my mind to support it. Addition-ally,
I am not afraid of changing my mind."
These are the words of Dave Shupe, Bethel's new
student body president-elect.
When Dave assumes office May 1, he hopes to
have co-ordinated a program of action for next year.
This general program will be presented on May 1 in
chapel. Presently, Dave is using this month to "pull
in ideas, talk to people, contact student leaders on
other campuses to build a working relationship on a
first-name basis."
Dave is no newcomer to the responsibilies and
challenges of leadership. As a freshman, Dave worked
on the Coeval staff. His sophomore year he took over
the editorship of the Coeval, served on the World
Missions student-faculty committee, participated in
IC-3 and festival choir.
This year saw Dave as student senate vice-presi-dent,
president of Christians International, and pro-gram
director of Pi Gamma Mu, the national honor
society of social sciences.
A junior and an anthropology (formerly English)
major, Dave is also a newlywed. The former Della
Gibbs (also a former English and anthropology major)
and Dave were married the Saturday after his election
victory.
A unique mandate was given to Dave from the
student body. Originally he had lost out in the elimi
nation primary by four votes. The next week he ar-rived
at school to find people asking him to run as
a write-in candidate.
"All those guys asked me to do was to put my
reputation and beliefs on the line. They did virtually
all the planning and work for the write-in campaign,"
Shupe stated. "I have a great feeling of appreciation
towards those who put me over."
He said the turn-out for the election was very en-couraging
and the election campaigning itself exhibit-ed
a great deal of student involvement.
(See election results . . . page 2)
Dave has a deep desire to maintain and increase
the level of involvement that was exhibited during
the election. "I cannot overstress the necessity for
student concern and action over matters that directly
affect their lives. There are some great opportunities
coming up — New Campus planning and curriculum
changes — for students to get together, organize, and
effectively act."
Dave views his role as president in both an
objective and subjective manner. "Objectively, I see
myself gathering opposing viewpoints, presenting them
to the Senate, generating discussion on issues on
campus. Subjectively, I wish to provide the leadership
necessary to co-ordinate and focus Senate action and
other campus-group action into positive change for
the benefit of the student body."
Clarion ranks excellent,
takes All-American award
Presidency of the Student Asso-ciation
Senate and the Presidency
of the Association were severed
from each other by action of the
Association Senate at its last meet-ing
before vacation.
Senate members approved a mo-tion
submitted by Thomas Ford
and Gregory Saracoff to implement
the change made possible by the
constituional revision of March 12.
The President of the Senate would,
according to the new statute, serve
at the pleasure of the Senate and
would preside over Senate meet-ings.
The Rendahl Commission for con-stitutional
reforms had suggested
that the Constitution be revised
to allow for this possibility since
the President of the Association
"Far Right in America" will be
the topic presented by Dr. Erling
Jorstad who will be speaker at
Dr. Erling Jorstad
is not elected for his abilities to
preside over meetings.
The proposal was an enlargement
of one suggested by L. Ray Sam-mons
in 1967 and one suggested
by Ford in the autumn of 1968.
Both would have created a Speaker
and a Speaker pro tempore of the
Senate, to preside over parts of
the meeting.
The only negative feeling voiced
at the Senate meeting to Ford's
proposal was whether a fixed term
for the Senate President would be
better. A separate motion to make
Dennis L. Olson the first Senate
President, submitted by Ford and
Thomas Mesaros, was tabled until
the Ninth Senate took over April 1.
On motion of Janet Hurt and
Keith Anderson a committee was
a convocation planned for Thurs-day,
April 24.
Dr. Jorstad, who is currently
Associate Professor of History at
St. Olaf College in Northfield,
Minnesota, has just completed the
first volume of a proposed multi-volume
work concerning the re-sponse
of American churches and
churchmen to the changes in Am-erican
life since 1945. The name
of the volume, now at the publish-ers,
is The Fundamentalists of the
Far Right. He is also presently
doing a study of the resurgence
of conservatism following World
War II. Dr. Jorstad's field of in-terest
centers around recent Amer-ican
religious history.
Dr. Jorstad, who expects to be
promoted to full professor in Sept-ember,
is a graduate of St. Olaf
College. He did post graduate work
at Harvard University and receiv-ed
his doctorate from the Univer-sity
of Wisconsin.
established to "review" the com-munications
media and submit re-commendations
for 1969-70, and
(make) suggestions for budget dis-bursements.
Earlier in the meeting Graydon
Held, comptroller of Bethel, dis-cussed
finances. He noted that pro-posed
enrollment for 1969-70 is
the equivilent of 1025 full-time stu-dents
and that like an industry, the
college needs to define its product,
and that both gifts and tuition are
ascending. On motion of Thomas
Mesaros, his report was accepted
with thanks — an extraordinary
event.
(ACP)—A counter-revolution is
emerging on some college campus-es
as students are organizing to
oppose disruptive demonstrations.
One group calls itself SPASM—
The Society for Prevention of Asi-nine
Student Movements. It was
born at Wichita State University
where students staged a "milk-in"
as a "peaceful, intelligent and legal
demonstration" in protest of pro-tests.
At Michigan State University
more than ten thousand students
have signed petitions condemning
"intimidation, violence and disrup-tion."
A group of U.S. Marines studying
at Purdue University have organ-ized
a drive to collect 500 pints of
blood for hospitals—a student an-swer
to disturbances on other cam-puses.
Sgt. Allen Force, a native of San
Francisco who is heading the drive,
said he intends to show that "the
activists, rioting and burning build-ings
are a small minority repre-senting
colleges falsely. The aver-
The Clarion recently received
notification that it has been award-ed
an All-American rating for the
first semester of the 1968-69 school
year.
Evaluation of collegiate news-papers
is a service of Associated
Collegiate Press at the University
of Minnesota's School of Journal-ism.
Student newspapers from
more than 600 colleges and uni-versities
across the nation are
Dennis Olsen was elected Senate
President at Wednesday's Senate
meeting. He will serve until re-called
by the Senate.
The Senate also passed a reso-lution
to make arrangements for
the coffee shop to be left open
Sunday night until midnight.
The Senate moved postponement
of class elections for two weeks.
This will allow members of tour-ing
performing organizations such
as Male Chorus a chance to par-ticipate
in the elections.
age student doesn't dare to get up
and speak against these activists.
This blood drive gives the student
an opportunity to say what he be-lieves
without any particular talent
for rhetoric."
judged on the basis of content,
writing and makeup in categories
based on enrollment, frequency of
publication and method of printing.
This is the second consecutive
semester that the Clarion has a-chieved
the All-American rank and
the sixth semester it has earned
the highest rating since becoming
a member of ACP in 1954.
The Clarion was grouped with
32 other papers, all weeklies put
out by colleges with enrollments
of 701-1200, for its evaluation this
year.
Ratings are based on a system
with 4,000 points representing the
highest possible score. A total of
3,700 points are needed to achieve
All-American recognition.
Officials from the School of Jour-nalism
said this week that the
highest score recorded out of the
32 entries in this catagory was The
Star, from Houghton (N.Y.) College,
which accumulated a total of 3,870.
The Clarion was given a total score
of 3,800.
The Clarion received its highest
score in regard to its news cover-age,
which included areas of news
sources, treatment of copy, bal-ance
and creativeness. Several
other areas judged very highly
were content (sports coverage and
editorial page features took per-fect
scores), makeup (perfect
scores on front page and sports
display) and photography (perfects
in picture content and captions).
Convoction analyzes "far right"
Groups react to campus unrest,
stage counter-demonstrations
Page 2
the CLARION Friday, April 18, 1969
Students can influence
campus housing plans
Bethel is in a position now that it has never been in before
and may never be in again. And Bethel students now have an
opportunity that very few students ever have.
Bethel is designing a new campus from scratch on a
beautiful site, and Bethel students can help. Hundreds of de-cisions
made in the next few years will affect everyone at
Bethel twenty-four hours a day for the next fifty years.
Making the right decisions will take a great deal of fore-sight.
The campus planners know that every poor move will
be the target of half a century of Monday morning quarterbacks,
and that most of those critics will be students. So they' want to
know what students will be thinking tomorrow. The best way
to find out, though it is far from perfect, is to find out what
they are thinking today.
Most of the discussion about the new campus has cen-tered
around housing, especially since tentative plans were
released for four dormitory clusters as the only accomodations.
A Senate survey showed, if nothing else, that an overwhelming
majority of students would object to four years of dorm life.
Of the different types of housing, dorms are the easiest
(and cheapest) to build and maintain, and the easiest to control
— they are far more suited to social regulations than apart-ments,
for instance. They also foster a sense of community
far more easily than any other type of housing.
But they are still, from the student's point of view, the
least desirable housing. They are the least homelike, the
least individualized, the least private, the least free. It is a
fact of life that most social activities consist of people in pairs
and that there are times when those pairs want to be by them-selves.
A dorm room, because it is a bedroom, cannot be
opened freely to visitors of the opposite sex, so there is no
way that a dorm room can offer that chance to be alone.
But if not dorms, what? Apartments? With two people or
four? With kitchens or without? Should everyone be required
to live on campus? Should freshmen be required to live in the
dorms?
The problems are many and the decisions have to be
made. The planners are open to (and eager for) suggestions
from students — talk to Mr. Phil Carlson, or talk to someone
in the Student Services Office, or write a letter to the Clarion,
but speak up!
A rousing election
Record turnout favors Shupe's write-in candidacy
by Faith Zwemke
"A completely unique experi-ence,"
was the comment of a stu-dent
following his participation in
Bethel's recent first annual Foren-sic
Festival.
This comment was one of many
which emphasized the excitement
and enthusiasm that evolved from
the tournament. According to the
director of the event, instructors,
administrators, and students, "For-ensic
Fun" was a resounding suc-cess.
The whole idea of such a local
tournament emerged out of a con-versation
between Marg Erickson
a n d Don Rainbow following a
speech contest at another school.
Both expressed a desire to give
Bethel students a chance to com-pete
in contest speaking, and find-ing
this a good opportunity to
complete an independent study,
Marg took on the tremerldous task
of directing the event.
One of the chief concerns of
those involved in planning the
event was that the interest and
excitement in contest speaking
would be transmitted to Bethel
students who, for the most part,
were totally unfamiliar with speech
tournaments. Some speech students
were given the option of entering
the Festival in exchange for some
class work; others were required
to enter, and still others entered
purely for their own enjoyment.
Commenting about her efforts
to keep the level of excitement
high, Marg Erickson said, "During
the entire tournament we tried to
keep talking, and keep giving ev-eryone
that 'sock it to 'em line!"
The success of such efforts was
clearly illustrated by the change
of attitude from one of disdain to
one of excitement on the part of
those students who were required
to enter.
An encouraging result of the
tournament was the willingness
and desire of many students to par-ticipate
in upcoming tournaments
such as the one in Superior April
18 and 19.
Being the first of its kind at
Bethel, the Forensic Festival in-volved
many uncertainties of which
numbers and quality were not
among the least. The total of those
participating was nearly 100 stu-dents
which was delightfully above
most expectations. The quality of
the tournament also ranked above
par, according to Rainbow, who in-dicated
that the quality and com-petition
here was keener than at
many tournaments Bethel students
have participated in on other cam-puses.
Judges were much aware of the
rigid competition and repeatedly
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
"A 'Relevant Theology" will be
Dr. Clarence Bass's theme for his
three chapel messages next week.
On Monday he will discuss "Un-derstanding
God in a Secular Age."
Tuesday his topic will be "Reve-lation
of Contemporaneous Exper-ience,"
in which he will discuss the
modern Christian's view of Scrip-ture.
"The Theology of Irreligious
Religion" will be his topic on Wed-nesday.
Dr. Bass is professor of
David A. Shupe, write-in candi-date
for Student Association Presi-dent
emerged the victor in what
was the most rousing Student As-sociation
election recalled at Beth-el
in recent years.
A record nearly 70 percent of
the student population turned ont
to vote for their choice for the
posts of president, vice president,
senators-at-large and class senate
seats.
Shupe had been eliminated from
the presidential contest by only
four votes in the primary election
on March 21 when they received
third highest vite of the five can-didates
who filed for the office.
In spite of vigorous campaigns
by the top two presidental con-tenders,
Shupe's backing by a "Co-alition
of Concerned Students"
proved successful as he claimed
51 percent of the student votes. A
total of 636 write-in votes were
cast for Shupe with Bruce Otto
claiming 163 votes and Tom Mesa-ros
received 147 votes.
Dave's votes were consistenly
two to one over the other two
candidates in each of the four
classes' voting totals.
It was "an election board night-mare"
as a 10-man emergency
crew counted ballots from the time
the voting poll closed until about
10:30 p.m. Including Shupe's vote,
there were about 1,000 write-in
ballots cast as at least 150 differ-ent
students got into the show with
small write-in support.
In the vice presidential race,
Richard Berggren was the top can-stated
that choosing winners was
extremely difficult. Nevertheless,
they finally arrived at winners in
poetry, prose, oratory, after-dinner
speaking, extemporaneous speak-ing,
and readers' theatre.
Karen Nelson, and Gayle Nelson
received first place trophies re-spectively,
in poetry and prose, and
Wibby Smith won in oratory. Sher-ie
Lindvall and Jon Peterson took
top honors, respectively, in after-dinner
and extemporaneous speak-ing,
and H. McLeod, M. Erickson,
W. Smith, and J. Palen were the
winners in readers' theatre. Jon
Peterson also won the individual
sweepstakes award.
Because of numerous favorable
reactions and comments about the
tournament, speech enthusiasts
hope and predict that the Forensic
Festival will be a continuing event
at Bethel.
theology in Bethel Seminary and
is a popular speaker.
Thursday will be convocation day,
advertised elsewhere in this issue.
Dr. Clifford Larson who served
as Dean of our College for ten
years and is currently professor
of Christian education and acting
Dean of our Seminary, and who
has accepted a position in Fuller
Seminary, will be our Friday speak-er.
This will be his farewell mes-sage
after twenty years of service
at Bethel.
Dave Shupe
didate with a total of 365 votes.
Maurice Zaffke came in second
with 208 votes. Other vice presi-dential
vote getters were: Ron
Hendrickson, 19; Greg Saracoff, 9;
Dennis Zaderaka,2, and one each
for Shupe, Otto and D. Gibson.
Run-offs had to be scheduled
to determine the fifth senator-at-large
(between Barbara Jahr and
Norma Wilcox) and the third class
of 1971 senate seat (between Dale
Berry, Keith Anderson, James Carl-son
and Diane Mattson).
The senator-at-large contest re-sulted
in some oddities as there
were 1,184 abstentions and exactly
100 different write-in candidates
who received less than 25 votes.
Winners of the five senator-at-by
Barb Jahr
In the minds of many Minneso-tan's
the tragic "natural acts of
God" are confined to areas quite
distant, geographically speaking.
However, the spring thaw of 1969
has made such realities into night-mares.
Bethel students returning from
Easter vacation viewed scenes of
loss hard to comprehend as reality.
Water, one of the things Minne-sota
prides itself on having a great
abundance of, has turned into a
violent destructive force. In the
Midwest at least 9,000 persons have
been and will continue to be kept
Baby boom
takes its toll
(ACP)—As a result of the war-baby
boom there's a severe short-age
of eligible men for today's
marriageable girls. Girls who would
normally have married for the first
time in 1967, 1968 or 1969 are the
victims of what Dr. Paul C. Glick,
assistant chief, Population Division,
U.S. Bureau of Census, calls the
"marriage squeeze."
At the time of the 1947 "baby
boom" nobody stopped to think
that girls would probably want to
marry 'boys two years older (born
1945) and that there were a half
million more girls born in 1947
than there were boys born in 1945.
Five possibilities for coping with
the man shortage problem and the
marriage squeeze: 1) go after the
hardcore bachelors 2) rob the cra-dle,
3) displace older wives, 4) wait
for the boys their age to grow up,
or 5) stay single.
Richard Berggren
large positions were: A. Dean Pear-son,
338; Elden John Elseth, 312;
Patricia Faxon, 294; Marjorie M.
Rusche, 289; and Norma Wilcox,
who claimed the run-off victory.
Others who received 25 or more
votes were: W. J. Painter, 46; Greg-ory
Saracoff, 43; Charles Myrbo,
35; and Maurice Zaffke, 25.
Class of '70 senate seats went
to: Janet Hurt, 104 votes; Linda
Sparks, 96, and Steven Lambrides,
66. Newly elected senators for the
class of '71 are: Douglas Warring,
131; Karen Nelson, 121; and James
Carlson, winner of that run-off
election. The Class of '72 elected:
Thomas Ford, 158; Wendell Wahlin,
142; Leland Granlund, 106; and
Philip Humbert, 104.
from their homes until the deluge
ends.
In Minnesota approximately 3,-
018 were homeless, South Dakota
came in second with 1,000, Wiscon-sin
about 400 and Iowa 60.
Through Minot, North Dakota
runs the Mouse River. The Mouse
is becoming a vicious beast seek-ing
whom it may devour, and the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers es-timated
that 7,000 people will have
to be evacuated before the crest
this week.
In the Twin Cities the floods
have led to inconvenient traffic
problems and some minor property
damage, in contrast to the vast
destruction elsewhere. In St. Paul
the Mississippi and Minnesota riv-ers
were expected to crest this
week, and the Union Depot has
been closed since last Friday.
the CLARION
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periods, by the students of Bethel
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by Pat Faxon
Both sides won.
An experimental attempt to en-courage
church attendance among
Bethel students who are living in
the dorms has been deemed a suc-cess.
Church attendance has been
stimulated and those students who
have no desire to attend Sunday
School but appreciate the church
service, have been granted the op-portunity
to do just that.
'Both Central and Trinity Baptist
Churches report that increased at-tendance
of Bethelites via the 10:30
a.m. buses has been very satisfac-tory.
Central Baptist Church makes
this statement, adding that there
has been no decrease in the num-ber
of 9:30 passengers.
The two churches plan to con-tinue
sending buses at 10:30. Mrs.
Alice Johnson, manager of food
services, who reports a worthwhile
increase in Sunday morning break-fast
attendance, also plans to con-tinue
the extension to 10:15 of that
meal.
by Lynn Bergfalk
The spirit of Huck Finn and Tom
Sawyer grabbed two adventurous
Bethel men over spring break, lur-them
down to Missouri for six
days on the Mississippi.
Ron Pederson and Douglas John
Carlson lashed a borrowed canoe
to the top of Ron's car, drove down
to St. Louis where they launched
the canoe on a tributary of the
Mississippi. Twenty miles later they
entered the Mississippi, which they
followed 140 miles to Cairo, Illi-nois,
where the Ohio River joins
the Father of Waters.
Except for two nights and a day
in Cape Girardeau, home of South-east
Missouri State College, Ron
Eastside play is
far from finest
by Chuck Myrbo
The current production at East-side
Theatre is the world premiere
of the English adaption of Isaac
Chocron's "Asia and the Far East."
The play is about patriotism, revo-lution,
the generation gap — that
much is obvious. But what it says
about patriotism, revolution, and
the generation gap isn't obvious at
all.
The play is rambling, ambiguous,
trite, and unbelievingly uninvolv-ing.
It's a musical, but the songs
do nothing to save the play. They
are sung lifelessly, and in many
cases unmusically.
This is the Eastside's sixty-fifth
production, advertised as "the
finest one of all." It is fortunate
for the Eastside Theatre that that's
not true.
and Doug stuck to the river, camp-ing
out along the way.
They traveled light, taking only
nutrient, vitamin tablets, oranges,
bananas, toilet paper, sleeping bags,
a tent, an ax, a pen knife from
Ron's key chain and a can opener.
Ron reported that it was a re-laxing
trip, and that the mile-wide
Mississippi, although high, was not
difficult to navigate. The most ev-entful
part of the trip came while
on land, particularly when attempt-ing
to get back to St. Louis and
Ron's car.
Landing in Cairo, the duo had
planned to rent a car and drive
back to St. Louis with the canoe.
However, they found that they
were too young to rent a car,
although they managed to borrow
a battered pickup with which they
hauled their canoe to a local gas
station for storage.
Then, deciding that bus fare
was too expensive, they tried hitch-hiking.
That failed, so they flew
to Cape Giradeau by private plane.
Doug then took a commercial
flight to St. Louis in order to get
the car which had been left at the
home of (believe it or not) Mrs.
Flo Hyer, who — in the meantime
— had misplaced Ron's car keys.
She and Doug hunted for the
keys for five hours before she
found them. Before Doug left, how-ever,
Flo Hyer (a grandmother who
was a "young-looking sixty," ac-cording
to Ron) made him kiss
her goodbye — right on the lips.
For Doug, it was the high point
of the trip, and a good way to
start the drive back to Minnesota.
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Bethel's beach headquarters
Two-man teams witness to other collegians on the beaches
Choir gives home concert tonight
on return from Great Lakes tour
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Friday, April 18, 1969
Spring break happenings • • • Students
'Palefaces' combine
witness with sunshine
What influence can seventeen
Christian college students have up-on
a swinging collegiate beach
town like Ft. Lauderdale?
Late Friday afternoon, April 4,
saw 11 very pale Bethel students
pile into 2 cars and head for the
southern regions of Fort Lauder-dale,
Florida. With great confi-dence
that the Lord was sending
them to receptive people on the
beaches and the strip, this eager
group set off.
Driving through fog and rain,
the group finally saw the famed
beaches of Daytona at 7:00 a.m. on
Sunday.
With only a few miles to go,
(compared to the 1600 already cov-ered)
they soon set out again for
Ft. Lauderdale. As they traveled
down Florida's coast, the r a i n s
caught them again and so it was
decided to take a side trip to
Cape Kennedy.
Impressed by man's feats in
space, but more excited about God's
love for man, Ft. Lauderdale be-came
the next stop.
Lauderdale Baptist Church had
anticipated their arrival and this
group of Beach Missionaries re-ceived
the most warm and hospita-ble
reception possible. Many people
in this small church had opened
their homes to the young people
and in some cases were disappoint-ed
to learn their stay was for
only one week and not for two.
In the meantime, another ear-ful
of students had left St. Paul
and arrived ready to 'hit the beach-es'
on Monday morning.
Armed with suntan oils, towels,
Campus Crusade's "Four Spiritual
Laws" booklets, and the National
Collegiate Religious Surveys, the
two-man teams began talking about
the love of God to collegians from
all over the U.S. Decisions were
made and people prayed but the
day on the beaches was not all.
In the evening the young people
met to walk the strip and once
again decisions were made, prayers
said and lives changed.
One fellow who prayed was just
in town for the day and was going
home to Central America that next
morning. Two others were so ex-cited
they grabbed the Bethelites
and hurried them down the street
to "tell our friends because it's
so wonderful."
Other decisions were made quiet-ly
and thoughtfully as though they
had just been waiting for that
important question to be asked,
Dave Pound, junior co-captain
of the team, commented that mira-cles
still happen in this era. The
team didn't have a lot of talent,
but he is sure that God was work-ing
in the witness that they had.
Staying in homes was an en-riching
experience for both the
Bethelites and their hosts. Dave
Dale Saxon couldn't resist just
a little monkey business
"Is there any reason why you
wouldn't like to receive Christ
right now?"
As for the next year, the group
promised the small church con-gregation
that Bethelites would at-tempt
to double their size if the
church would provide housing a-gain.
The returning 17 students were
a little tanner and a lot more ex-cited
about witnessing for the God
of greatness and love that they
are privileged to have as their
own.
mentioned how strong the bond
of Christ seemed to be because it
was so easy to feel at home and
have fellowship with complete
strangers.
During the normal part of the
season, a track team will have one
meet and maybe two per week.
However, when five meets are
crowded into ten days, with an
extra work-out on the side thrown
in, something has to give. In fact,
the team did give. The rigorous
schedule put them into top con-dition,
and despite the fact that
they only won one meet, individual
performances got better and better.
The team had ten days of top-notch
weather to help make the
trip a lot of fun rather than a lot
of hard work. For a team which
does not have indoor facilities such
as Macalester, Wisconsin State
schools, and others, ,Bethel's track
trip is a unique and rewarding at
tempt to compensate for adverse
circumstances.
Amidst admonitions and bene-dictions
of well-wishers, three in-trepid
students departed from the
Twin Cities on April 2 with little
more than their knapsacks and
what proved to be some very lucky
thumbs.
Before the journey was over, Jan-et
Appelquist, Sarah Buell, and
Ed Hall had covered hundreds of
miles and found themselves in New
York City on April 4, forming the
first 3/5 of a 5-man welcoming
committee for less adventurous stu-dents
who chose to fly out for the
Art Department tour over Easter
break.
Two other hikers, Jim Skolman
and Randy Cahill (a non-Bethel-ite),
jointed the small group of
three to await the arrival of the
by Wally Borner Such track trips generally fea-
Coach Glader states that he ture a dual role as the men double
knows of no other college in the as a "tract" team. In exchange for
area that does what the Bethel meals and lodging, they participate
College Track Team does—that is, in church services and youth meet-go
on an extended outstate trip ings. This year's squad is not par-during
the early part of the season. titularly blessed with a great deal
And thanks to Minnesota's unpre- of talent; however, Dwight Carl-dictable
spring, such a trip works son's trumpet and a male chorus
to the great advantage of the team. which sang in unison most of the
Coach Glader's thinclads left at time, provided a musical worship
noon Thursday, April 3 for a ten- experience. The musical presen-day
trip with five meets. They took tation was rounded out with tes-two
stationwagons and fourteen timonies.
squad members, (two of whom had
to return home early) and embark-ed
on their rigorous, yet economi-cal
excursion.
The men stayed in homes of
people from conference churches a-long
much of the way. They spent
one night on the campus of Tarkio
in Missouri, and two nights at
Bethel of Kansas.
Cindermen double as gospel team
Vacation track trip is unique experience
by Karen Rodberg
Just back from their concert
tour of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan, the Bethel College
Choir presents its homecoming
concert at 8 p.m. today in the
fieldhouse.
The Choir's repertoire features
works from every musical period
since the Renaissance. The major
work is Darius Milhaud's "The Two
Cities," which employs some of the
more modern choral techniques.
Also included in the concert are
several hymn arrangements and
be physically exciting and times
when the messages of each song be-came
especially meaningful to each
member of the choir.
Of course there were times of
fun or, when nothing could go
right—times like beginning the day
at 5 a.m., or watching one member
fall up the risers mid-concert, or
finding yourself being handed
Rich Trinity's red socks in the mid-dle
of a song, or getting even with
a business manager and assistant
conductor, or playing football in
a marsh.
a spiritual. The choir arrived back on cam-
The choir's tour brought a num- pus at 4:15 a.m. Tuesday—a bit
ber of memorable experiences, weary after a rigorous schedule
some aesthetic, some spiritual, and and 14 concerts, but all agreeing
some hilarious. There were times that the tour was well worth their
when acoustics were so live as to time.
rest of the students on Sunday, ler Center, Times Square, the Em-
April 6. pire State Building, the United
Robert Clark Nelson, design Nations, Grand Central Station and
teacher from 'Bethel, led a 7-day the NBC studios.
tour for 16 students (including Mrs. Central Park and Greenwich Vil-
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and meal planner). Trinity Baptist the group went. Many of the stu-
Church provided sleeping accomo- dents took the Staten Island Ferry
dations and a kitchen where the boat ride past the Statue of Liberty.
group ate breakfast before leaving The fare was only 5c (which is
for each day's tour. about the cheapest thing in the
As the week wore on, so the whole city of New York).
shoes wore out. The group visited Several students went to the all-some
80 or 90 galleries, most of black cast production of "Hello,
which consisted of one-man shows Dolly!".
contained in the private one-room All in all, the group agreed it
galleries which abound in New was an exciting week which left
York City. Among other activities, the art students with very sore
the group visited Lincoln Center feet but some great ideas for new
for the Performing Arts, Rockefel- works.
"Thumbs-up" all the way
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and staff members take to the road
by Marjorie Rusche
Small private colleges in trouble
Chicago was the site of the As-sociation
of Higher Education Ex-ecutives
conference on the "private
college prediciment." James Bragg,
director of admissions, attended
this session.
"Small private colleges across
the country are in trouble; some
are closing down due to lack of
funds," Bragg noted. "They are
pricing themselves out of a mar-ket.
This year, for the first time
in U.S. educational history, there
has been a decrease in small pri-vate
college enrollment."
Up to three years ago, Bethel
was trying to discourage students
from coming. A new admissions
department was just instituted Feb.
1 and should be in full operation by
Sept. 1, Bragg said.
"A full-scale recruitment pro-gram
is needed to keep enrollment
up during the next five years
when a financial squeeze on small
private colleges is coming. This
recruitment and retention program
must cut across department lines.
"The entire faculty must be com-mitted
to these areas. We must
realize that the school exists for
students, not for the board of edu-cation,
business office, administra-tion,
faculty, or alumni."
Many private colleges have re-ceived
cut-backs in funds for finan-cial
aids programs. The fund-short-age
in state and federal govern-ments
is so acute public education
funds are being drastically cut.
In order for a small private col-lege
to survive, Bragg feels, they
must have a great deal of consti-tuent
loyalty; and there are new
factors threatening the loyalty of
the General Baptist Conference
constituency to Bethel.
"There is a trend among minis-ters
to suggest attendance at a
state college and involvement in
one of the Christian organizations
on campus there to their high
school students. Furthermore, pas-tors
are decreasing in influence as
far as a choice of college is con-cerned
for most high schools now
have a counseling program for
students interested in college, and
this program emphasizes state
schools.
"The sophistication and growth
of junior colleges cuts down on
applicants, Another factor is the
state's extensive scholarship and
grant programs."
Bragg feels an action that would
encourage enrollment at Bethel
would be an honest straightforward
approach in printed materials de-signed
to interest prospective stu-dents
and to the whole admissions
criteria.
"We should not be striving to
create a 'pure' student body. The
college must not be afraid to ident-ify
what students really think. In-stead
of asking on an admissions
application form, 'Have you ever
accepted Jesus Christ as your per-sonal
Savior?' we should be more
concerned with a question like 'Are
you interested in seriously examin-ing
the Christian faith?'," Bragg
suggested.
Finlay forcasts computerization
Improved management of data
was the concern of the Upper Mid-west
Association of Collegiate Reg-istrars
and Admissions Officers
Conference held April 9, 10, 11, at
Augustana College in Sioux Falls,
S.D.
Dr. Paul Finlay, registrar, picked
up valuable information about
streamlining record systems at the
conference.
As things stand now at Bethel,
each administrative office has a
different type of data system for
gathering and recording informa-tion
about students.
The school plans to work towards
a correlation of these various rec-ords
in the financial aids, student
services, admissions, accounting
and eventually alumni offices. This
can be done by standardizing the
data and computerizing it through
a data processing system.
Bethel hopes to have standardiz-ed
data before the campus moves
to the Arden Hills site.
Chaplains in vulnerable position
A self-study of chaplains occur-red
at the Association of College
and University Chaplain's confer-ence
at Pitzer College in Claremont
Calif. April 8-11.
Pastor Lawson attended the con-ference,
at which representatives
from administration, faculty, and
student groups were present to
give their impressions of chaplain-cy.
"The administrators there were
sympathetic to the idea of chap-laincy.
There was a general feel-ing
among faculty members that we
are now living in a post-Christian
era and there is little place for a
man of religion. A few of the
students were openly hostile to
the idea of chaplaincy."
Pastor Lawson noted a great
concern of the men at the con-ference
over student protests. He
spoke of the men he met. "Many
of the chaplains there are looked
to for leadership by social action
groups due to their marginal posi-tion.
Most of the chaplains are in
a very vulnerable position — they
have no contract, no tenure, and
can be dismissed on a day's no-tice.
Generally quite dedicated and
caught in the role of mediator be-theologically
liberal, they a r e
tween student groups and adminis-trators."
Women Deans "doing a new thing"
"Behold! We are doing a New
Thing" — the theme of the Nation-al
Association of Women Deans and
Counselors conference in Atlanta,
Georgia — reflects the growing de-mand
for challenging new pro-grams
and methods of instruction
on today's campuses.
Bethel was represented at the
April 10-13 conference by Marilyn
Starr, Dean of Women.
Concern was expressed at the
conference over student unrest.
Dean Starr noted, "There is a gen-eral
trend towards tighter and
firmer administration among this
nation's schools. There is the feel-ing
that the administration must
clearly define the rules and stan-dards
of the schools, print them,
give them out, and then enforce
them firmly."
Another trend among college ad-ministrators
was a drive towards
more liberal hours and stricter
visitation. "There is a good possi-bility
for liberalization of hours
next year," Miss Starr stated, "how-ever,
I would like to see more visi-tation
in the lounges and less in the
rooms — including Falcon Manor
as well as the girls' manors. Extra
funds would be necessary to make
improvement in the lounges."
Programs that some schools are
using to encourage a "living-learn-ing"
type of atmosphere in the
dorms and campus include major
or scholarship floors or houses.
Individuals in a certain field or
with a certain G.P.A. would be
voluntarily grouped together on a
floor of a dorm or in a separate
house.
Miss Starr saw a limited possi-bility
of inaugurating this type of
program at Bethel. "It would be
difficult to have a language floor
or house at Bethel, for example,
because there isn't a language
major presently offered," she said.
As far as housing is concerned,
the trend on college campuses is
away from dormitories and towards
apartments. "We'll have to consi-der
this factor in New Campus
planning," Miss Starr stated. "How-ever,
there seems to be a general
GOLF SCORES
Out In Score
C Buettner 47 43 90
B Dave Anderson 34 38 72
C Steinhorst 50 52 102
B Steve Peterson 37 33 70
C Schalihor 41 49 90
B Murray Sitte 40 39 79
C Wudy 53 58 111
B Finch 37 37 74
C Lilleberg 62 63 125
B Moline 41 43 84
feeling that freshmen should still
live in dorms and have hour regu-lations."
Growing openness to experimental
education
Dr. Walter Wessel journeyed to
Sugar Hills resort at Grand Rap-ids,
Minn. last weekend to attend
the annual Minnesota Inter-college
faculty conference.
The conference concerned itself
with methods of improving college
teaching. Many new ideas were
presented and discussed.
One particular example of the
new trend in experimentation is
the development of a para-college
at St. Olaf. An initial enrollment of
70 is slated for its opening in the
fall of '69 with a projected enroll-ment
of 500.
The faculty of the magnus col-lege
will be hired by the regular
college, but will serve at the ex-perimental
college more in an ad-visory
capacity than in a straight
lecture capacity, Dr. Wessel said.
There are no required courses
that the students must take. The
whole curriculum is very unstruct-ured.
No grades are given.
Students may stay at the col-lege
for 3-5 years. When they feel
they are ready, students take two
comprehensive exams, one in their
area of concentration and one in
the area of general arts. Successful
completion of the two exams are
the only requirements for gradua-tion.
The long-range purpose of the
magnus college is to bring about
substantial change in the larger
college, according to Dr. Wessel.
Dr. Wessel feels there is a grow-ing
openness towards experimental
educational methods on Bethel's
campus. "This openness is evidenc-ed
by the adoption of the interim
term program."
"Hopefully, the new program will
influence the scheduling and pro-gramming
of regular semesters.
Greater flexibility is needed."
Individual Performances —
Track Trip
Name finishes
1 2 3 4 TP
Fritz Fredeen* 5 3 0 3 413/2
Bob Olsen*** 3 3 10 3 37
Andy Lehman** 1 7 6 1 34
Dave Pearson 1 4 2 1 22
Dave Pound* 2 2 1 1 201/2
Dwight Carlson 2 2 1 0 17
Phil James* 1 2 2 0 15112
Rick Berggren* 1 2 0 0 131/2
Dick Olson 0 2 4 0 11
Darrel Nelson 0 3 0 0 9
George Gulian 0 0 2 0 2
Jim Carlson 0 0 2 0 2
* Participated in mile relay which
took first place twice.
** Set School record in 176 yard
Intermediate hurdles-23.3
***Set School record in shot put-
46'6"; 176 yard dash-19.3
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Friday, April 18, 1969
Baseball team sweeps
doubleheader at NCBC
Bethel's Baseball team took a doubleheader from
North Central Bible College of Minneapolis Wednes-day,
The first game saw the Royals putting together
an eleven-hit attack for a 12-1 victory. The nightcap
was 8-0 with only five hits.
Bethel hit around in the first inning of the first
game and tallied five runs. Dean Ericson led off
with a double and came home on Jim Delich's
triple. Gary Clark and Steve Hanson each singled
and two walks and a sacrifice fly filled out the inning.
The second inning brought in three more runs
and they got single runs in each of the last four
innings. Doug Warring got on base without a hit
four times and scored three runs. Jim Delich went
3 for 3 with a single, double, and triple. Gary Clark
stroked three singles.
Lowell Richardson was the winning pitcher and
was given help from Gary Clark and Bill Painter. They
combined to limit NOBC to four hits.
In the second game, the Royals started out the
same way — this time collecting four runs. They
only managed two hits, but had five walks.
In two innings, Bethel scored without getting
a hit. Their five hits were all singles. Dean Ericson
picked up two hits, with Gary Clark, Doug Warring,
and Bob Brodin picking up one.
Brodinski picked up the win giving up one hit.
Dean Ericson pitched two innings, and NCBC picked
up their second run off Delich in the last inning.
Bethel bobbled the ball only once in the two
games. Bethel's defense this year consists of Bill
Englund behind the plate with Bill Painter backing
him up. The infield is Dean Ericson at first, Doug
Warring at second, Jim Delich at third, with Brodin
and Jim Feldman switching at short. The outfield
is Dick Hunter, Gary Clark, and Steve Hanson from
left to right field.
SPORTS CALENDAR
April 18-24
18 Baseball, Twins vs. California
18 Tennis, Bethel vs. River Falls
IRON MAN OF BETHEL TRACK
Bob Olsen began the season as Bethel's
weight man. However, he has developed into
the teams No. 1 man in the short distance
dashes and a steady performer in the long
and triple jumps. Twice this year he has
broken the school shot put record.
19 Baseball, Bethel at Albert Lea (2)
19 Track, Bethel at Carleton Relays
19 Baseball, Twins vs. California
20 Baseball, Twins vs. California
21 Tennis, Bethel at Gustavus
21 Baseball, Twins vs. Oakland
22 Baseball, Twins vs. Oakland
22 Golf, Bethel vs. Stout State
23 Baseball, Bethel at Carleton
23 Baseball, Twins at Oakland
23 Tennis, Bethel at Hamline ,
24 Baseball, Twins at Oakland
Track trip yields stiff competition, fine conditioning
Seddiete Symposium
New look in the Major Leagues
(Guest Editorial)
by Jim Youngquist
Spring has arrived and with it the beginning of a new
baseball season. Already in its second week, some are still
attempting to get things straight. With the new season has
come four new teams and an expansion into four divisions
of the teams. Also the addition of new teams has resulted in
an extra number of unknowns among the players. The result
could be a wild scramble for rookie of the year honors.
How will the new season shape up? Added to the Ameri-can
League were Seattle and Kansas City. Without Charles
0. Finley to liven things, K.C. might draw less fans than two
years ago.
In the West it will be a three way battle among Chicago,
Minnesota, and Oakland. Chicago and Oakland must rely on
their pitching to pull on top. With the Twins it will be up
to how well Billy Martin leads his forces. With Lopez back in
control and if the Sox can produce a few more runs, it should
be Chicago in the West.
Over in the East there appears to be a five team battle
for the title. All except the Senators have excellent chances
to win it, though Detroit would have to be the favored team.
Entering the year as world champions, the Tigers are
coming back with all but one starter. This is the sharp fielder
Ray Oyler who hit a sizzling .135 last year. McLain, a 31-game
winner last year, Lolich, and Wilson head up the pitching staff.
Then with names such as Mickey Stanley, Willie Horton, Al
Kathie, Norm Cash, Bob Freehan, and Dick McCauliffe in the
lineup, the Tigers will be hard to stop. Rivaling the Tigers
closest will likely be Boston, if Lonborg and Tony Conigliaro
can recover from last year's injuries.
Unlike the American League, the divisions in the National
League are not grouped geographically. For lack of better
terms, unfortunately, they are also divided into East and West.
Favored in the East is St. Louis. Stripped of their title as
World champions by Detroit, they will be shooting for revenge.
Likely to challenge their bid will be the Cubs under the reins
of "Leo the Lip." With "Grandpa" Banks leading the way,
and some help from the pitchers it could be a fierce fight for
the divison title. Included in the division is Montreal, the first
Major League team outside the United States. With a little
luck and some pitchers the Expos may climb to fifth in their
first year.
Traditional rivals, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the
same division, help make the West better balanced. Four
teams, the Giants, Braves, Reds, and Dodgers have a good chance
for the top. Yet with Marichal heading the moundsmen and
Mays the hitters, San Francisco must get the edge. San Diego,
an expansion team, will sweat and toil to win a third of their
games.
Tenth place is now in the past. With the division of the
leagues, teams like the Mets and Astros are hard put. Not
only are they unable to end up tenth but they also have com-petition
for their position from the Expos and Padres.
On the other hand the divisions yield four races instead
of two. It should heighten interest in baseball by increasing
the possibility of at least one or more close races. The division-al
leaders at the season's end are first to pair off in a best of
three-out-of-five series within their leagues. These winners
then will play in the traditional World Series. Who the Series
winner will be anyone's guess—this observer sees the San
Francisco Giants as the new world champs!
drubbed in vacation action
Bethel's track team hit the road
during Easter vacation on a trip
which took them to five meets in
five states. Though they did not
come back with a load of impres-sive
victories, the trip was very
worthwhile for the conditioning of
the team.
The squad left Thursday, April
3 and had a meet that afternoon
with the Mankato State College "B"
squad. Mankato appeared to be
running away with the meet when
they held a 25 point bulge with
only three events to be reported.
Then Bethel jumped back by tak-ing
each place except for a second
in the three jumping events. The
Royals lost by only 63-59.
The next meet was the South Da-kota
Invitational and included 15
teams from the midwest area. This
was the stiffest competition that
Bethel has seen and they picked
up the 12th spot with only a total
of 7 team points.
Fritz Fredeen took fourth in the
120 yard high hurdles and in the
440 yard intermediate hurdles. An-dy
Lehman jumped to a third
place finish in the triple jump.
The first dual outdoor meet was
against a newcomer to the Bethel
schedule. Tarkio College in Tarkio,
Missouri provided the opposition
for Bethel's first win of the sea-son.
The score was 69-66 but in
Golfers sizzle in
The duffers really did it. And for
the first match of the season, it
was an impressive victory.
However, when you only consid-er
the competition, we can't really
brag up the golf team because last
Monday Concordia of St. Paul was
unable to mount anything of a
threat. Murray Sitte was the only
golfer who had any pressure. He
led his opponent by only one stroke
after the front nine but took a ten
stroke edge coming in.
When one considers how the
weather has prevented the team
from getting much action on the
the light of Bethel's main problem
this year, no depth, it was a very
good victory.
Tarkio, in fact, took 11 of the 16
first place honors. However, Bethel
took 12 second place and 11 third
place finishes.
Phil James put out his best per-formance
of the year in the 440
by taking first place with a time
of :51.6. Fritz Fredeen took first
place in both hurdle events. How-ever,
the one who is becoming the
iron man of the squad is Bob
Olsen. Bob took first place in the
shot put as he broke his own record
with a toss of 46'6". He took sec-ond
place in the broad and triple
jumps and third place in the 100
yard dash, javelin, 220 yard dash,
and discus.
Returning to Bethel College in
North Newton, Kansas, the Royals
came into a bit of misfortune. Two
years ago, Coach Glader's squad
easily disposed of their Kansas
namesake. But this year the com-bination
of a much stronger oppo-nent
and our own small numbers
spelled defeat by the score of 74-
71.
The Royals were strong in the
hurdles and distance races as Fre-deen
once again took first in both
hurdle events and Dwight Carlson
took first in both the mile and S-mile
race.
opening meet
links prior to this first match, one
wonders what kind of guys we have
at Bethel when six of them post
sub-80 scores.
Concordia only had five men and
so Bethel sent Dave Anderson,
Steve Peterson, Sitte, Dale Finch,
and Bill Moline against them. Steve
shot a scorching 70 and Dave post-ed
a 72 stroke score. The five men
combined to win the meet by 139
strokes.
The rest of the team went the
full 18 holes also with Jerry Loomis
and Jim Lindberg postion scores
of 76 and 77 respectively.
The event that stung, however,
was the first event. In the 440-
yard relay, the Royals won by half
a second. But the Kansas team was
awarded first place points due to
a baton exchange in the wrong
lane. That five point error cost the
meet.
The final meet of the trip was
in Waverly, Iowa where Bethel
joined William Penn College in a
triangular meet against Wartburg.
Bethel was outclassed as the final
score ended William Penn 87,
Wartburg 71, Bethel 22. At the
finish line for first place, Bethel
was completely shut out. Dave
Pearson was high performance man
with a second, third, and fourth
place finish in high, triple, and
broad jumps respectively.
With that grueling schedule be-hind
them, the team is now in top
condition. Saturday the team will
travel- to Northfield to participate
in the Carleton Relays.
Diamondmen
by Wally Borner
The diamondmen took it on the
chin, but at least not without try-ing.
In their April 10 opener a-gainst
Carleton, Bethel dropped a
six to two decision. The problem?
No key hits and no depth in the
pitching.
Concordia held a two-zip lead
going into the eighth inning when
they scored twice more on two
walks, two singles, and an error.
In the bottom of the inning, Dick
Hunter reached base on an error
and later scored on an error.
However, Concordia scored their
fifth and sixth runs in the top of
the ninth. Don Craft singled to
open Bethel's half of the inning and
scored on Dean Ericson's single.
However, the rally didn't get going
and the team lost a ticker.
The key hit that never came?
In the second inning, Bethel loaded
the bases with one out Steve Han-son
hit into a double play. In the
third inning Gary Clark opened
with a double but was stranded
there. With the bases loaded and
no one out in the seventh, the
Carleton pitcher managed to get
two Royals to pop up and the other
to whiff. And so Bethel won in the
left on base category, as they
stranded 11.
Two days later, the team traveled
to Eau Claire and were trounced
in a double header 13-2 and 9-1.
Again the relief pitching wasn't
there as a Royal reliever gave up
eight runs in the sixth inning of
the first game.
,Bethel's two runs came early.
In the second inning, Doug Warring
singled in Gary Clark. The follow-ing
frame temporarily brought
Bethel to its feet as Dick Hunter
blasted the ball over the center-field
fence. In both of those in-nings,
however, the Eau Claire
pitcher struck out the side.
In the nightcap, Eau Claire
struck early as they scored four
times in the first inning, three in
the second, and twice in the third.
The Royal's loan run came in
the third when Doug Warring
walked and came home on Jim De-lich's
double. Once again, Bethel
had the bases loaded with one out
on two occasions, but could not
'bring anyone across the plate.
This year, the pitching load is
almost entirely on Lowell Richard-son
and Bob Brodin. Both are fine
hurlers, however, this early in the
season, they can't pitch seven or
nine innings without tiring.
The hitting has not been any-thing
to get excited about yet. Bill
Englund has three hits in seven
at bats and Dean Ericson is 3 for 11.
Other than that, no one has more
than one hit and the team has not
been able to get more than six
hits in a game.
If the hits start falling and the
two sophomore pitchers can get
some help, the season will be good.
But until then, there will be no
joy in Mudville.